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A short showcase of my work, my ideas and my ideals.

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I hanged an empty frame on my bedroom’s wall: it takes<br />

up just about a square meter.<br />

Before I go to sleep I lie down and stare at it. I need to<br />

fill it with all the ideas, projects and intuitions that piled<br />

up in my mind during the day.


RINT PRI<br />

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RINT PRI<br />

PRINT<br />

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Abbiamo distribuito<br />

30.000 cartoline<br />

con 8 illustrazioni<br />

originali.<br />

Trovale tutte e 8,<br />

portacele e ti<br />

regaleremo<br />

un mese del tuo<br />

corso preferito.<br />

*caccia al tesoro riservata ai non tesserati.<br />

Palestra New Athletic<br />

Via Ansuino da Forlì, 4<br />

Arcella<br />

Padova<br />

049 864 19 00<br />

fb @newathleticpd<br />

New Athletic & Martial Scool center Società Sportiva dilettantistica a R.L. è una società affiliata US Acli: ente di promozione sportiva riconosciuto dal CONI affiliazione n. 13305 registro Coni n. 217451<br />

L’attività di propaganda è in funzione agli scopi istituzionali e necessaria per lo sviluppo e la divulgazione dello Sport dilettantistico nazionale. Per coloro che faranno domanda per la pratica dell’attività<br />

istituzionale la società provvederà al tesseramento di questi all’ente sportivo cui è affiliata.


CAMP<br />

CAMPAIGNS<br />

AIGNS


Do You Have a Beard?<br />

University of the West of England<br />

Being a Transgender person I lived through long periods in my life<br />

where I had to understand, experiment and “play” with gender and<br />

identity.<br />

During these times I learned a lot about gender marks and how the<br />

world uses to immediately identify one’s gender.<br />

I realised people around me never had the chance/need to dwell upon<br />

this issue and I developed a way to help them “feel” some of what I<br />

felt during transition.<br />

Together with some of my fellow students we created a corner where,<br />

for a whole month, anyone could play with our “portable beards”, use<br />

them, play with them, take pictures and pull faces, and in the end keep<br />

them or leave them for the next to come.


The White Book of Equality<br />

University of the West of England<br />

How many women are there in the Army?<br />

How many Disabled Persons have access to Public Health?<br />

How many LGBT people are jobless because of who they are?<br />

How many the victims of illegal abortions?<br />

How many bullies are never reported by their victims?<br />

This publication, made of simple wood and paper, contained facts and<br />

figures, both positive and negative about discrimination in the western<br />

world.


We are all Apes<br />

University of the West of England


BONOBOS DO IT BETTER<br />

Bonobos have been recently flagged by IUCN<br />

as a high extinction risk species. Yet, they have<br />

built a fairer, more inclusive and substantially<br />

better than ours, what can we learn from them?


New Athletic<br />

New Athletic & Martial School Center<br />

Identity<br />

In 2015 I entered the world of “New Athletic”:<br />

a gym founded in 1979, well rooted in a 40.000<br />

people area. It was an old gym, rooted in<br />

martial arts and bodybuilding. The mission<br />

was to change its Identity from “neglected but<br />

cheap” to “the coolest gym in the area”. We<br />

looked at history built a whole new strategy.<br />

We didn’t want to loose what was already cool<br />

about the place: its history, its “grungy” location<br />

and its roots in the people of an area that is very<br />

similar to old Hackney in London. We turned<br />

ironic and quite daring in our communication,<br />

because we needed to change our image in<br />

people’s minds. In the end, with a steady growth<br />

we doubled our clubbers and got to be the<br />

“place to go” in the area.<br />

IN FORMA DAL 1979


pronte<br />

per<br />

il mare?<br />

IN FORMA DAL 1979


BEFORE<br />

AFTER


#MadeInArcella<br />

With its 800 clubbers, New Athletic has<br />

become an important landmark in the area.<br />

But why stop with the gym?<br />

In the past 20 years the ‘hood has changed<br />

and it has become “so dangerous” that 3<br />

years ago the govenment deemed it


necessary to send in the army for street<br />

patrolling. But how about people who live<br />

there? Are they all “dangerous”?<br />

#MadeInArcella was thinked of as a<br />

provocation but soon became a sparkle to<br />

something more, maybe a change?


ArcellaGround<br />

Culture, music, arts, are the best answer to fear<br />

arcellaground.com<br />

Thanks to the hint given by #MadeInArcella, a group<br />

of citizens living in the area start a crowd-sourcing<br />

campaign to fight urban decay in the most debated<br />

area of Veneto:<br />

39.145 inhabitants<br />

20+ nationalities<br />

Army Patrols since 2015<br />

We created an online platform where anyone with<br />

a space, be it a garage, a shop or a private garden,<br />

could make it available. Meanwhile artists of all sorts<br />

could match their performance’s needs to any of the<br />

available spaces thus creating a sort of “diffused<br />

stage” throughout the whole area.<br />

No place is dangerous if people start going out and<br />

re-taking the streets.


Contact<br />

Giovanni Papalia<br />

+39 3914845822<br />

giovanni.papalia1@gmail.com

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